Holy cow! I must admit, I had started to lose hope, and then this happens. I keep looking at the play-by-play summary on NFL.com, and it looks absolutely ridiculous - how the heck did they pull this one out of the fire?

Great game we needed this. Novac is a good kicker he's alot better then John hall. Maryland kid, gotta love it. He makes game winners. Mark Brunnell played well, the defense lloked great, AA should ride the pine then be let go after the year! Troy vincent is my new hero!! go skins also the skins are 1.5 out of the last playoff spot!! they can do it!!!

UK Skins Fan wrote:Holy cow! I must admit, I had started to lose hope, and then this happens. I keep looking at the play-by-play summary on NFL.com, and it looks absolutely ridiculous - how the heck did they pull this one out of the fire?

Then again, who cares?

The good news is we beat our most hated rival in a way that has to be excrutiatingly painful for them

We won because a) their FG unit broke down b) most of our team really did "play their guts out" and c) Sean Taylor made a typically great play and d) we got lucky that the refs handed us a 15 yard penalty on a 5 yard offense.

[quote="Redskin in Canada"][quote="old-timer"] Brunell showed yet again that although he will not lose you many games he will not win you many either.

i agree with that statement!! He won't lose games or win them!! however mark should remain the starter until we are mathematically elimated from the playoff contention! he does give us the ebst chance to win i think? Great win now we got to get moss healthy!! go skins!! dallas sucks!!

AA has been punked in coverage at every opportunity; I still think that the Redskins have to make use of his skillset and get him closer to the line rather than back in coverage... but I'm all for subbing in Vincent when the strong safety is going to be asked to cover.

Bottom line is tha the Redskins defense played better today. They still didn't play great and gave up way too many big plays on crucial downs, but they were a lot more aggressive today. Gregg Williams called a completely different game today with his two cornerbacks finally in the lineup at the same time. They weren't all world in coverage themselves, but providing Williams with the confidence to call more blitzes allowed the defense to be much more aggressive today.

Neither side of the ball was great or seemed proficient to say the least, but this is a special rivalry with a lot of special games, and today was just another one of those for Redskins fans IMO.

B.Lloyd had a great game today... on and off the ball... but we'll get the skinny straight from Brandon himself on this week's show.

The nice thing about victories? They're all worth the same no matter how you come by them.

This game was lost by the Cowboys, honestly. From penalties, dropped passes to the o-line not blocking the left side on the field goal, wow.

Best part for me, was seeing Parcells interviewed in the post game. He looked like he wanted to cry.

Need a hug, Bill?

BossHog wrote:AA has been punked in coverage at every opportunity; I still think that the Redskins have to make use of his skillset and get him closer to the line rather than back in coverage... but I'm all for subbing in Vincent when the strong safety is going to be asked to cover.

And I think that's what Pierleau was supposed to be doing all along. That injury really meant AA had to play where he couldn't play...in the passing game.